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 My family and I are mourning the loss of our beloved grandmother, Sarah Ogwel Onyango Obama, affectionately known to many as “Mama Sarah” but known to us as “Dani” or Granny. Born in the first quarter of the last century, in Nyanza Province, on the shores of Lake Victoria, she had no formal schooling, and in the ways of her tribe, she was married off to a much older man while only a teen. She would spend the rest of her life in the tiny village of Alego, in a small home built of mud-and thatch brick and without electricity or indoor plumbing. There she raised eight children, tended to her goats and chickens, grew an assortment of crops, and took what the family didn’t use to sell at the local open-air market. Although not his birth mother, Granny would raise my father as her own, and it was in part thanks to her love and encouragement that he was able to defy the odds and do well enough in school to get a scholarship to attend an American university. When our family had difficulti...

  THE NIGERIAN ARMY SENDS SERIOUS WARNING TO ISLAMIC CLERIC,  SHEIKH GUMI Nigerian army has warned Sheikh Ahmed Gumi to stop inciting citizens with his comments. Islamic Scholar, Sheikh Ahmed Gumi has been told to apply restraint when commenting on issues concerning the Nigerian army.  The Nigerian army warned Gumi to stop making statements capable of inciting the public. It said Gumi and the opinion merchants needed to exercise restraints in their comments because troops are not deployed for operations along ethnic or religious lines. The caution coincided with the sacking of an Emir and a district head in Zamfara state for allegedly supporting bandits.  Army Public Relations Director,  Brig.-General Mohammed Yerima, in a statement yesterday specifically made reference to a viral video in which Gumi told bandits that soldiers deployed against them were non-muslims.  The statement partly reads: "The attention of the Nigerian Army has been drawn to a viral v...

 LAW ALLOWS ME TO REMAIN IG TILL 2024 , Adamu tells court By Bridget Edokwe, March 9, 2021 Inspector General (IG) Mohammed Adamu has faulted argument that his retention in office was unlawful having attained the maximum 35 years in service on February  1. Adamu argued that the new Nigeria Police Act gave him a four-year tenure which would only lapse in either 2023 or 2024. He insisted that his tenure will lapse in 2023 if counted from 2019 when he was appointed as the IG, or 2024 if counted from 2020 when the new Nigeria Police Act came into force. His position is contained in the counter-affidavit and notice of objection he filled against a suit by a lawyer, Maxwell Opara before the Federal High Court in Abuja, challenging Adamu's continued stay in office beyond  February 1. In a documents filed by his lawyer, Alex Iziyon (SAN), Adamu contented that the office of the Inspector-General of Police is not governed by the general provisions applicable to the rest of the polic...

 MEGHAN ACCUSES BRITISH ROYALS OF RACISM MEGHAN, the wife of Prince Harry, accused Britain's Royal family of raising concerns about how dark their son's skin might be and pushing her to the brink of suicide.    She spoke in a tell-all television interview that would send shockwaves through the Monarchy. The 39-year old, whose mother is black and father is white,  said she had been naive before she married into royalty in 2018, but she ended up having suicidal thoughts and considering self-harm after pleading for help but getting none. Meghan said her son Archie now aged one, had been denied the title of prince because there were concerns within the royal family "about how dark his skin might be when he's born. "That was relayed to me from Harry, those were the conversations the family had with him" Meghan recounted in an interview with Oprah Winfrey aired on CBS late on Sunday.    MEGHAN declined to say who had aired such concerns, as did Harry. Winfrey lat...

  Kayode Oyero As Nigeria commenced its vaccination against the lethal coronavirus infection on Friday, Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello, has said he won’t receive the vaccine even as his colleagues are expected to receive shots of the AstraZeneca/Oxford COVID-19 vaccines in the coming days. Bello spoke on Channels Television’s ‘Politics Today’ programme monitored by  The PUNCH. He also said there was nothing medically wrong with him and he won’t allow the people of the state to be used as “guinea pigs” Nigeria had on Tuesday received about four million doses of AstraZeneca/Oxford COVID-19 vaccine shipped into the country through the Nnamdi Azikwe International Airport, Abuja. The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), and Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo as well as some governors are also expected to receive shots of the vaccines on Saturday to dissipate vaccine hesitancy amongst Nigerians. But speaking on Friday, the Kogi governor said, “COVID-19 is not our business...

   The Political history of Kogi and Nigeria would generously remember Hon. Abuh Odoma as one of the proactive, undeniable and phenomenal political figures in the ancient town of Idah with absolute ambition and preparedness for the transformation of Idah LGA within the next three years as the thirteenth (13) elected Executive Chairman of Idah LGA.    He has an undiluted love and care for all the people across the ten (10) wards. He is usually accorded with respectable reception woven with honour in view of the indispensability of his statutory duties as the Executive Chairman of Idah LGA determined to prevent, tackle and mitigate insecurity like kidnapping, cultism and other criminal issues. His priority as a Idah LGA's helmsman is to establish a robust and effective working synergy with the managements and personnels of all the security outfits in the local government for the protection of lives and properties as the fundamental responsibility of a people oriented a...

 ~WHAT DOES THE WORD "HIM" MEANS IN AN AUDIO-VISUAL CLASSROOM:      According to my Late English teacher; Master Joshua Ataguba of blessed memory; the word "HIM" assumes it's greatest usefulness in an Objective case as a part of a sentence. Him as a word is meant to show how object of a sentence received the action of a doer known as the subject in that sentence.  Objective case and subjective case are directly and interchangeably used in all sentences world over. E.g He loves him The words "He" and Him in the sentence above are for male gender in that male dominated sentence. The word 'He' is both a pronoun as well as the subject of the same sentence preceeding the verb of the same sentence known as "love".  The word 'HIM' in this case is objective or recipient of the action of the doer 'He'. *********** IDAH LGA'S DEFINITION OF 'HIM' Within the political arena in Idah LGA, the word HIM is harvested from t...